AMD reorganized how it's handling distributors in its year-old Fusion Partner Program. A new "distributor track" deals with distributors consistently whether they were AMD Direct Master Distributor or systems distributors. The AMD distributor track covers all AMD products—CPUs, GPUs, client and server computer systems. The distribution partners are tiered according to their total engagement with AMD across both components and systems

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In the past, AMD differentiated distributors that handled components from those that dealt with AMD-based systems.

"We're consolidating how we deal with distributors. There are different types around the world. In emerging nations you have subdistribution, someone who sells to someone else who sells to the customer, so now subdistributors are part of the distribution track. We're being clear how we incent people like that," said David Kenyon, corporate vice president of worldwide marketing for AMD Inc.

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Users were intrigued by the new centralized support for Open vSwitch, which previously required management within each virtual host. The new version includes a virtual appliance that can be downloaded and imported into a XenServer host to centrally manage all vSwitches on other hosts.

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